List of University of Southampton people

This is a list of famous student and staff alumni from University of Southampton and from the various historical institutions which are now part of the University of Southampton.

Student alumni

Politics

• Evan Enwerem (Former President of the Senate of Nigeria)
• John Denham MP (British MP and Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills )
• Gerald Howarth (British MP)
• Gloria Hooper, Baroness Hooper (Life peer in the House of Lords)
• Mohammed Lutfi Farhat (Member of the Pan-African Parliament from Libya and the Parliament's North African Vice President)
• Jason Hu (Mayor of Taichung City and former foreign minister of the Republic of China)
• Clive Soley, Baron Soley (Life peer in the House of Lords)
• Jan David Simon, 3rd Viscount Simon (Hereditary peer in the House of Lords)
• Matthew Taylor (British MP and Chief Executive, Royal Society of Arts)
• Dr Alan Whitehead (British MP)
• George Thomas (Speaker of the House of Commons 1976–1983, later Viscount Tonypandy)
• Justine Greening (British MP)
• Usutuaije Maamberua (Namibian politician head of the South West Africa National Union)
• Arnold Shaw (Former British MP)
• Bob Mitchell (Former British MP)
• William Whitlock (Former British MP)
• Sheila Wright (Former British MP)
• John Arthur Stevens, Baron Stevens of Kirkwhelpington KStJ QPM DL FRSA (Former head of the Metropolitan Police Service and Current International Security Advisor to the Prime Minister)

Journalism

• Andrea Benfield (co-anchor of Wales Tonight)
• Alex Brummer (Economic Commentator)
• Jason Cowley (Editor of the New Statesman)
• John Inverdale (Sports Journalist)
• Dominic Mohan (Deputy Editor of The Sun newspaper)
• Jon Sopel (BBC Correspondent)
• Srđa Trifković (Journalist and Author)

Law

• Sir Sir Adrian Fulford (Judge of the International Criminal Court)
• Richard Thomas (Information Commissioner of the United Kingdom)
• Grenville Cross, SC, JP (Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) of Hong Kong, China)

Industry

• Neil J. Gunther (Computer Scientist)
• Phil Moorby (Computer Scientist)
• Chai Patel CBE FRCP (Former Chief Executive of the Priory Healthcare group)
• Stephen Payne (Principle Architect of the Queen Mary 2)
• Christopher Orlebar (Aeronautics Expert)
• Peter Kyberd (Biomedical Engineer)
• Wouter van Oortmerssen (Computer Game Designer)
• Peter Tertzakian (Chief Energy Economist of ARC Financial Corporation)

Military

• Air Commodore Ian Stewart (Commandant of the Air Cadet Organisation)
• Rear Admiral George Zambellas DSC, (Former Commander United Kingdom Maritime Forces)
• Air Vice Marshal Arthur Daniel Button, CB, OBE (Former Senior Commander in the Royal Air Force)

Entertainment

• Liz Barker (Television Presenter)
• Stephen Baysted (Composer)
• James Clarke (Composer)
• Jeremy Hardy (Comedian)
• Mark Hill (Record Producer and Songwriter)
• John Nettles (Actor)
• Chris Packham (Naturalist and Television Presenter)
• James Saunders (Playwright)
• Kathy Tayler (TV presenter)
• James Laidler (Radio Producer)
• Stefan Buczacki (Horticulturist, Broadcaster and Author)

Sports

• Guin Batten (Rower)
• Miriam Batten (Rower)
• Roger Black (Athlete)
• Tim Male (Rower)
• Adrian Newey (Technical Director, Red Bull Racing Formula One team)
• Jon Potter (Field Hockey player)
• Mark Taylor (Rugby player)

Arts

• Geoffrey King (Composer)
• Dominic Muldowney (Composer)
• Robin Maconie (Composer)
• Daniel Catán (Composer)
• Tom Lloyd (Novelist)
• Stephen Baxter (Science Fiction Author)
• Peter Hill (Rock Music Photographer)
• Kodwo Eshun (Author and Theorist)
• Pauline Stainer (Poet)
• Peter Dews (Philosopher)
• Anwen Keeling (Portrait Painter)

Religion

• Rt Rev. David Marrison Hallatt (Former Anglican Bishop of Shrewsbury
• Rt Rev. Lee Stephen Rayfield (Current Bishop of Swindon)
• Timothy Martin Thornton (Bishop Designate of Truro)

Others

• Kevin Ashman (International Mastermind Champion)
• Stella Tennant (Model)
• Sally Clark (Lawyer, convicted for the murder of her two children in 1999, subsequently quashed on appeal in 2003; notable for the involvement of Professor Sir Roy Meadow and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy)
• Laura Bailey (Model)
• John Anthony McGuckin (Orthodox Christian Priest and Author)
• George Hersee (BBC Engineer responsible for development of Test Card F)
• Colin White (Navel Historian)
• Anthony Cohen CBE, FRSE (Vice-Chancellor of Queen Margaret University)
• Paul Light (Vice-Chancellor of the University of Winchester)

Staff alumni

Engineering, Science and Mathematics

• Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Astrophysicist and Nobel Prize winner)
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee (World Wide Web inventor)
• Maurice S. Brookhart (Chemist)
• John Brignell
• Martin Dunwoody (Mathematician)
• Peter GregsonFREng (President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast)
• Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold (Chemist)
• Rt Rev.David Charles James Bishop of Bradford
• Stevan Harnad (Cognitive Scientist)
• Tony Hey (Corporate Vice-President of Microsoft UK)
• Martin Fleischmann (Chemist)
• Frederick W. Lanchester (Engineer and co-founder of the Lanchester Engine Company )
• Harold Lawton (Former Pro Vice-Chancellor of University of Sheffield)
• Jo Marks (Founded of Harlequin software company)
• David N. Payne FRS CBE (invented the erbium-doped fibre amplifier EDFA)
• Dan Pedoe (Mathematician and Geometer)
• Stanley Pons (Chemist)
• Philip Russell FRS(Director of the third division of the Max Planck Research Group)
• Sir David James Wallace, CBE, FRS, DL (Director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge and master of Churchill College, Cambridge)
• Erich Zepler (Electronics Expert and Chess Problem Composer)

Law, Arts and Social Sciences

• Khalid Aziz LVO DL FRSA (Journalist)
• Sir Alan Peter Budd (Economist, and founding member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee)
• David Cesarani (Historian)
• Sir Barry Cunliffe (Former President of Council for British Archaeology (1976-79) and interim chair of English Heritage)
• David Beers Quinn (Historian)
• Miriam Daly (Irish republican activist and Historian)
• Ian Diamond (Chief Executive of Economic and Social Research Council)
• Michael Finnissy (Composer and Pianist)
• Paul Geroski (Economist and Former member of Monopolies and Mergers Commission)
• William Gibson (Historian)
• Ric Graebner (Composer)
• Malcolm Grant CBE (Provost and President of University College London)
• Jan Haaland (Rector of the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)
• Tim Holt (Former President of the Royal Statistical Society and Office for National Statistics)
• Nell Leyshon (Dramatist and Novelist)
• Richard Marlow (Former Director of Music at Trinity College, Cambridge)
• Prof Ray Monk (Philosophy Author)
• Christopher A. Pissarides (Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics at the London School of Economics)
• Frank Prince (Poet)
• Ken Russell (Film Director)
• Antony Sutton (Economist)
• Steve Smith (Vice-Chancellor, University of Exeter)
• Adrian Tinniswood (Architecture Writer)
• John Turner (Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Portsmouth)
• Donald Tyerman (Former Editor of The Economist)
• Peter Ucko (Founder of the World Archaeological Congress)
• Robert Young (Post colonial Theorist and Historian)

Medicine, Health and Life Sciences

• Richard Aldridge President of the Palaeontological Association
• Terry J. Hamblin (Haematology and Immunology Expert)
• Eric Jackson Thomas (Current Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol and chair of the Worldwide Universities Network)
• Michael Arthur(Former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds}

Other

• George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe (Politician and Former Chancellor of University of Southampton)
• Sir Bernard Miller (Former Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership and Pro-Vice Chancellor of University of Southampton)
• John Roberts (Former Historian and Pro-Vice Chancellor of University of Southampton)
• Sir Howard NewbyCBE(Former vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton and President of the British Association)

Sir Donald AchesonKBE (Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom)